Albert Dekker

Albert Dekker (20 December 1905-5 May 1968) was a member of the California State Assembly (D-57) from 1945 to 1947, succeeding Franklin J. Potter and preceding Charles J. Conrad.

Biography
Albert Dekker was born in Brooklyn, New York City in 1905, and he worked as a theater actor before transferring to Hollywood in 1937. He appeared in seventy films from the 1930s to the 1960s, and he also served in the California State Assembly from 1945 to 1947 as a Democrat. He was blacklisted in Hollywood due to his opposition to US Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch hunt, and he returned to his Broadway career. In 1968, he was found naked and dead in a Hollywood bathtub from autoerotic asphyxiation at the age of 62.